Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) has indicated that motorcycles and tuktuk vehicles will be allowed on the multi billion shilling expressway. – By Gerald Gekara.
KeNHA Director General Engineer Peter Mundinia said the authority will design a special lane to give secure access to bodaboda operators and tuktuks.
“Everyone will be allowed to use the Nairobi Expressway, bodaboda, trailers and all others can use it,” he stated.
In an earlier gazette notice, motorcycles owners criticized the government for excluding them in the expressway. However KeNHA said their activities will be monitored to avoid accidents.
“Cameras will also be set up all over the road. If a bodaboda rider does not keep to his lane, he will be arrested and fined,” he conveyed.
He, however, did not disclose the toll rates for the motorcycles on the road.
The Nairobi Expressway construction is on high gear, with works expected to be completed by December 2021.
Major works that included a viaduct from the southern bypass interchange to the Westlands area are well ahead of scheduled time.
The China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) have employed technology to carry out what is now known as the fastest road construction project in the nation’s history.
